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Producing the Through Life Management Plan (TLMP) – Process Overview
How do I go about establishing the TLMP requirements for a project?
Analyse the project from the widest possible perspective, and consider all possible aspects of the ‘Whole System’ and ‘Whole Life’ context that could influence the project management task.
Consider the following questions:
- What are the project outputs?
- When are they needed?
- What are the decisions (plus their criteria) and activities needed to deliver the outputs?
- When are these decisions and activities needed, and what do we need to do to get there?
- Where does the responsibility lie?
- What resources and processes do we need to put in place?
- What do we need from other people?
And take into account the various aspects of the project, such as:
- Military context
- Stakeholders (who are they, what are there responsibilities, and what information do they need?)
- Business and ‘political’ environment
- Project parameters, objectives, and targets
- Resources
- Legislation and policy (eg safety, risk ILS etc)
- Performance monitoring and review
- Whole system (ie all components and all DLoDs) and whole life
- Performance, cost, and time trade-offs
Process Overview
The process of producing the TLMP is summarised below and in more detail within the table:
- Step 1 - Define Project Objectives and Parameters.
- Step 2 - Do Stakeholder Analysis.
- Step 3 - Define Strategies for achieving Objectives.
- Step 4 - Describe how Strategies will be Implemented.
- Step 5 - Cost your TLMP.
- Step 6 - Define Criteria on which Success will be evaluated.
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Inputs / Outputs |
Products / Processes |
Inputs
- Approvals
- Capability Management
- Customer Service Agreements (CSAs)
- Joint Business Agreements (JBAs)
- Statement of Mission Need
- User Requirement Document (URD)
- System Requirements Document (SRD)
- Constraints
- Assumptions
Outputs
- Master Data Assumption List (MDAL)
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Related Products
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Inputs
- Balanced Scorecard
- CSAs
- MDAL
- Legislation
- Other Govt Departments (OGDs)
- Memorandums of Understanding (MOU)
Outputs
- Stakeholder Map
- Defence Lines of Development (DLODs) / Stakeholder Matrix
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Related Products
- CSAs
- JBAs
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Requirements associated DLoD plans
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Inputs
- Balanced Scorecard
- DE&S Corporate Plan
- Cluster Plan
- TLB Business Plans
- Capability Management Plan
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Related Products
- MOD and DE&S policies and requirements
- Business Case requirements
- MDAL
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Inputs
- Strategies defined in step 3
- Standards
- Balanced Scorecard
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Related Products
Related Processes
- Quality and Review
- LFE
- Risk Management
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Inputs
- Through Life Finance records
- Whole Life Cost Model
- MDAL
- Stakeholder analysis (Step 2)
Outputs
- Through Life Finance data
- Unit Production Cost (UPC)
- Acquisition, support and operating costs
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Related Processes
- Equipment Capability Customer (ECC) Plan
- Equipment Support Plan
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Inputs
Outputs
- Achievement against objectives
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Related Products
- Project Team Business Plan
- Customer Surveys
Related Processes
- Balanced Scorecards
- Department and organisational review
- Business Reviews
- Major Projects Review (MPR)
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